Cool hacks are not always about the newest and shiniest features. Sometimes, a great hack comes from unearthing wonderful and wacky code hidden in an obscure location. Apple’s sample code repository is a great source for this sort of digital archeology. In this chapter, you see a wonderful hack that takes advantage of a little-known bit of sample code for processing video camera input into QuickTime video. The hack, Video Desktop, takes the camera input and turns it into a continuously changing Mac OS X desktop (see Figure 18-1). The technology it uses isn’t new or particularly fancy, but the effect it produces is extremely cool. Continued…

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